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The BOYS and GIRLS
HOW IT FEELS ΤΟ
BE
By Barbara Cohon
W
AN
HEN people ask me how it feels to bo an author, I won- mcan be- understand
der what they cause I don't
why they don't also ask me
how it feels to be 8 years old.
You know, grown-ups are nl-
ways asking questions anyway... more than children do. What's your name, they ask you, where do you live, how old are you, what is your father's business, have you any brothers or sisters? They always ask the samo questions, 200. Don't they ever
get tired? Anyway, it's not so strange to be an author and be
8 years old, at the same
time,
Dum
AUTHOR
Miss Barbara Cohen (above) Most of my friends are thors too and they are 8 years is eight years old and the as- old 100. Only they don't write thor of a real book, "Once Upon their stories out on paper. If a Time," which was published real publisher (The they would write them out like by
William-Frederick Press, 313 I do, they would be real au- thors too.
that one. Anyway, I' guess those are stories only adults know how to write,
aro
I rather write my kind of stories which I think about all the time, especially on unsty days or when my friends somewhere else, or at night before. I go to bed. I like to think about my stories before write them down on paper, like thinking of cigarettes with feel- inge, or pictures becoming alive, or say an old bleycle who wishes he had some Hitle child to ride him,
da
was
It's a very funny thing, know all my stories by hear but they
sound so differoni when people read them out loud. Like when Ted Steele reads them on television, he reads them so fast and with so much ex- pression I feel like sitting right down and writing more stories for grown ups to read out lou0. |
Anyway, to get to the subject, one day when I had nothing to down I decided to write
of these stories I some thinking about. I wrote some Of course, I'm not West 35th Street, New York, about fairy tales and sorie
Of course, It's really an author because I can't Cly) and which sells for real were not.
are tales use big words yet, even though money. This article was written to say which I think I understand most of by Barbara exclusively for our which aren't because thought Girls I think Boys the big words when
Her Page. about them a long time.
"copy" was prepared in typleat up, stories are all make believe
that's what scries and I don't think people should Barbara style, part in pencil, talks are anyway, even though part in red crayon, part n they are all about real things uns big words anyway. They get smudged ink and on scraps of you can think about in different in the way when you are trying multi-coloured paper.
In order ways,
Anyway, I don't know to tell a wonderful story. Espe to keep the printers from hay if all this is about how it feels cially in children's stories, be In nervous breakdowns, Ik was to be an author who is years cause only
read children
typewritten on white paper, old, children's storica and big but except for some punctant-
arc really
ter and
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In children's stories. teenager stories.
in
and
paragraphing, I know belag printed "as is"
because my father and
∙ft La
mother said I am ready to read very beautiful all at the same Miss Alcott's book called "Little time. Then she got a job on
a night Women" and I started to read the Bowery in
club
it but it takes me very long to where people stay up very late afler because there at night and eat even even finish a page ords in it. suppertime and keep on danc
are so many big But when my mother reads it out loud to us it sounds won- derful and I cry in lots of parts because it is so sad.
crying
} to write
a girl who was very poor and
of my
Parlour Kayle-Pins
By WALTER KING
KAYLE-PINS
hard
of
at
PAGE
JAPANESE
ZOO'S WHO GAME OF
HERMIT CRABS HAVE NO NATURAL. ARMOR, AND MUST USE DISCARDED
SHELLS OF OTHER SEA
ANIMALS...
ÁROCK SQUIRREL OF MICHOACAN,MEXICO. PLAYS ON LAVA BEDS STILL EMITTING VAPORS
OF HEAT...
BEES CAN NOT HEAR
THE HIGHEST
PITCH OF AVIOLIN
STRING.
96WHALES, ONE FOR EVERY TEN PERSONS IN TOWN,RECENTLY WERE BEACHED AT STRONSAY, ORKNEY ISLANDS...
Purr-Purr Got a Scolding
-Hanid Told Her to Avoid Dangerous Places---
By MAX TRELL
sald KNOW Purr Purr,"
N Hunid the Shadow-giri with the turned-about naine.
to the black kitten, "I've told you again and again not 10 Yet walk in dangerous places. you keep right on doing it, don't you?" Hanid repeated in a louder voice, noticing that the kitten was paying no attention to her whatever, and seemed to be curling up for a long nap right in Hanid's lap.
of
Haald gave the kitten a bit shake. Nothing rough,
mind you-just a little bit of a shake.
Pur-Purr opened her eyes Purr-Parr in the rose garden. and looked up at Hanld.
"There, now that you're fully climbed up to the chimney in roof That awaler,
again, the middle of the Hanid began "I'll tell you what I just said was very naughty of you, Purr- that I had told you not to walk Pure.... very, very naughty."
But you In dangerous places.
Hanid looked reprimandingly means, in a scolding keep right on walking in them which
wayat Pure-Purr. any way."
of BOTT Hanid waited for a moment But Furr-Purr didn't seem to
in two,
case Pure-Purr mind the look at all should decide to say something
or
In
answer
GO-BAN
means "G" and
"G"Ban" means board.
may bo.
The "board" ruled out on a large piece of checker. cardboard, or board may be called into service for quick action.
The counters may be red and
ΔΙΟΙ
GAME OF GO-BAN
BLACK WING!
MOVES
black checkers, white buttons.
ur black
The idea is to get Ave of colour In a TOW, verti horizontally or diagonally. Arst player to do this is winner.
Each player gets 12 marke all of one colour, The
player places a marker on of the 64 squares, and
second player then pluces of his markers on one of remaining squares.
cd;
in Go "go bang", int
Players take turns "placing until all markers are on thi ing together and smoking at
board or until one player he litile tables as though it was
five in a row. If no player ha a party, and in my story a man
succeeded
a fy in getting with her, her age
gets fresh
score by the time all marker ran out of the night and she
the player When I am a teenager I will club and never came back tu
is a 20th
are on the board,
to move
one at write stortes like that, all about her job, but I didn't know how
grandchild
commence
adjacent people getting into trouble and to finish this story because
time to any the ancient game of bowl
square in any direction. things happening to them, and really this wasn't one
meane there may be cigh Throwing rocks and all regular stories. It was a storying. and laughing
possible moves or less 1 BOT. kinds of sad and happy things I saw on television once, but I wooden pins in an effort to
of the nearby squares are od going on all the time.
couldn't remember all of it bc- knock them down was
"I don't know how you ever Once I started
cause there was so many things
to this. But the got down off that roof again. cupled Jumping is not allow popular away back in the
I just hope you story like that.
It was about happening in it, one after a 14th century. From this kitten, just kept looking Hanid Pur-Purr.
So I never finished
without didn't in the eye straight other.
Iall though," Hand
Watch your moves sport we have our game of uttering a single word.
added thoughtfully, and more
Ban or you'll fair- "coconut shy" or the
than to the kitten, trouble. Heard and Understood to herself
"cats always manage to fall on ground sport of "hit the
Honid decided tha! Purr- cats."
Later, the wooden Purr had heard and understood all their four legs, when they do fall! They never seem to get said about pins were knocked over by what she had just
But that doesn't mean MYSTERIOUS of
walking in dangerous places, an hurt. rolling balls
that cats meang
mightn't get hurt in nodded and went Hanid
on. falling, sometime... sacumen.c.........iam which started our modern
"Now yesterday, Purr-Purr, game of bowling.
happened to be up in the attic
The Day Before COWS HAVE IT.
looking for something or other.
that Fort the ancient Just
at You can play
then I heard a
"And the day before Here Fre a lot of cows, but
with of Kayles
do- scratching noise on the root. roof adventure of yours, Purr there is no reason for you to be game
parlour cowed. Each "cow" is a part of minoes right on the
Place the table against of the little dusty window, and was
the garden. table.
sitting in
versity emptied a theatre by hi Supply the the missing word.
wall
whom
all the and set up 13 do-
did I see on the rool? counting
Lowers and ting an inaudible note on an o missing
part and all will be
minoes in a straight row
from thinking of how beautiful they gan, backstage. Men, Who was scrambling up well. To help you along there
and what little trouble and children rushed from thi the end of tho table nearest shingle to shingle-right up to were, are definitions. If you get six
the wall. There should be a
the tippy-edge
seats in terror. (which appear else-
where ono-inch space between where an this page) you are of the dominoes. top cowhand; four right, ordinary cowpoke; three right, tenderfoot.
PUZZLE PATCH
CRUISE TO BOLIVIA
This crossword is on msp
of Bolivia:
ACROSS
1 Musical note
3 East Indies (ab.)
프
4 Written form of Mister
5 Long, snaky fish
a
answers
1. Skin mado into
́s cow~——,
2.
Jacks One who
Is' a cow-
courage
3. A ranch worker is a cow
4. A
hair tuft of backwards on
is a cow-
hit.
are
on
each
G
SOUND
JOT many years ago Professo
Well, Purr Purr. I glanced out Purr," Hanid said gain, N Wood of Johns Hopkins Un
of the roof they gave anyone; and sudden. noticed something very the weather-rooster ly 1 stands? Who was it. Purr- strange sticking up at the top
Purr?"
Once more Hanid
WOH
Inaudible sounds can be to
of the rose-arbort it didn't look tying. Perhaps it is a good
Purr-Puri,that the human car has a rang wolled at all like a rost, for the black kitten to answer, although I did see something only 20,000 vibrations per seco
But she didn't.
that
the
Now take turns bowling the dominoes with a golf ball. leather At first it is casy to make
resembled a little clump Below or above this range But soon large gaps ap-
"Oh, deari" sighed Hanid at of sharp, curved thorns. But are not, in a manner of speaki pear in the row and you will
Inst. "If you won't even try to this thing that I saw, my dear, "tuned in." If the hearing ran a tail, and were hither, we could listen find it
much easier to miss.
suppose I'll have to had four legs, and guess, I hit
shrill squeaks of bats and 1 feli Dominoes that have been
was you. & furry head, and two big eyes. The
first to you myself. It removed.
Purr-Purr! You were the one And It was sitting or lying high-pitched notes of mice.
curled up on top of that mice are believed to be singers Now why all turned capture seven of the dominoes
house mice as well as graz sucu rose-arbor!" walking in a dangerous place?""
Hanld glared at Purr-Purr in hopper mice though hum quite her lap,, doing her best to make ears cannot hear their songs
the kitten feel how angry
You know the kind of whis con- she was with her.
that your dog can hear but whi
a person's heads the winner. Chess pawns or other counters may be used
5. A contagious disease of instead of dominoes.
cows is cow——,
6.
Red clover is
cow,
1.
RIDDLES
known as
What semi-precious stone is like an opening in a fence?
2. What word
7 Elther
9 This
week's puzzles
are
about-
"devotees";
"L
13 Tardier
can be pro- nounced quicker by adding a syllable to it?
fourth
14 Sturgeon eggs
10 Sorrowful
DOWN
1 Recalls to mind
2 Ireland
6 Lounged
Narrow inlet
10 Vermont (ab.)
11 That is (ab.)
12 Measure of area
15 On account (ab.)
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE
the by
N interesting variation to A
of Kayle- this old game pins is as follows. Place 13 counters in a row, alde
the second side, and remove опс. Now tell your opponent you are going to tako turns at removing
the Kayle-pins and
3. Forty sheep, a man and m that the player who makes the dog were walking. How many
feet were there altogether?
MIX-UPS
last capture will be the win-
ner, Players may take
one
ore
or two Kayics at a time but
two the event that In
these two must be in the to one another
are
removed next row.
Three Bolivian towns concealed in the strange lines below. Uncover them by re arranging the letter in each row:
RAID DINT
O IS TOP
IT A JAR
BOLIVIAN RIVERS
Occasionally, Al Karalia the Puzzle
becomes. quite Man, confused when creating a sen- tence and this is one of those times. Can you help AI by
sense out of the fol- Bolivian rivers hidden here:
making
lowing:
Tilleros, the Bolivian
Largest In Americs the In
world which ply, on
regularly Iako Peruvian-border, the
kko Bouth and highest the on steamboats.
TRIANGLE
Bolivia has two capitals, I Paz and Bucre,
DO CAPITAL torms the ceiling and side for our pendant triangle. The recond word is "gets up"; third is #OZIO
of
Columbus' shipp fourth
"devotees"; frih beverage": (brad. sixth "w/hilo?
CAPITAL,
Use of the words and pic-i tures
will uncover the four
RN
BEN, FCAN'T MANDID T [GET YOU INTO PARK YOU IF
OUR CLUB J'COULO 62, Our
ROUGH
DURABLE "KITCHEN KARE
at
Of course, you always win this variation of Kayic- pins because you know how.
This is what you must know, You should arrange it, as soon 80 that there are es possible,
even number of similar
two singles liko
and groups,
singles of two two doubles
From then and two triples,
your opponent on, whatever does, if you do the same, you are bound to win.
•
QUPPOSE, for example, that the Kayles look like this. The OXOXO OOXOOOXX. Crouse represent Kayles that Now it have been removed.
removea opponent your single, you remove a single. he removes the first two of a remove the same triplet, you
I were
saw on the roofi
you
Pur-Purr remained
silent.
"And then," Hanjd
tmued. "I scolded you. I order-
rd
just went
*mcow."'
"It
shops.
Was you, Purr-Purri 1 soundless to you St you to go down off that Only you! Now tell me, really, whistles are sold at most
be a roof at once! And what did you were you pretending to do? I'll tell you what you illd. rose? Because, if you were,
The world we live in is net You
and you didn't fool me for even a
¡minute. And it only made me silent, even in its quiciest m teel how very wicked It was ments. Sound is ever around PUZZLE ANSWERS of you to climb up in such
In Fennsylvania, a housew langerous place! Just sup-
was alartled when her gas ran you had fallen into the middle of the rose vine-right began talking to her. The vo into
all the thorns! They was that of a neighbour, a rac would have scratched you, you ham who was talking to anoth silly
titten. And it wouldn't ham in South America. Two u like
metals in the housewi have done you the least bit of
up the sign have scratched them stove picked good to
while one of the range's me
into the bre
CROSSWORD:
SAD
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE: Lake Titicaca, on the Peruvian Bolivian border, is the largest lake in South America and the highdet in the world on which steamboats regularly ply.
TRIANGLE:
CAPITAL ARISES PINTA
ISTS
VEL
43
Ꮮ
COWS HAVE IT: 1-Cow- hitte. 2-Coward. 3-Cowboy. 4
two of the other triplet. I he-Cowlick 6-Cowpox Cow removes the middle Kayle of a triplat, you remove the middle Kayle of the other triplet, and
RIDDLES: 1 —–—– Agate. quick. 3-Two feet; sheep had boofs and dog bad paws,
MIX-UPB: Trinidad, Patoel, TRU
The simplest of games are usually the most interesting
apponly when you an OLIVIAN – RIVER: Mon members of the family to tow pool Madidl, Chepere in on the tunay
pose
back/"
And once more, and for the pancis tuned
casts. The stovo became last time, Hanid looked down
radio receiver.
at Purr-Purr and sighed. "Oh dcar-what's the use of trying Sound can be used to desti to scold you. Why, you aren't bacteria, chase rodents, preser even listening! I'm sure you're food and even cure a great ma
Pioneering in not
Your eyes are ailments. listening. shut, Purr-Purr. Yes, quite mysterious world of sound shut. You're fast, fast asleep!" only just begun."
Rupert's Climbing Adventure-42
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Dika't you tell can be was.
W
4 bendit? Of coure. I thou he was. All men with beards l like bandits to me," says Bi cheerfully The man roNTS *- laughter, ** ** We're not bunslita fit
beat, be mys. * We're Sorant When we've finished our you'll have a lovely new wood o
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